Spies Like Us
With spies like these, who needs enemies?
Country
Production
Budget
$22 000 000
Box office
$60 088 980
Director
Actors
Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Vanessa Angel, Bernie Casey, Charles McKeown
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Brian Grazer, George Folsey Jr., Bernie Brillstein
Camera operator
Robert Paynter
Composer
Artist
Peter Murton, Terry Ackland-Snow, Jim Morahan
Audition
Marion Dougherty, Debbie McWilliams
Editing
Malcolm Campbell, Dan Allingham
Whole Team (105)
Whole Team (105)
Short description
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
What's left behind the scenes
- In 2009, the animated series "Family Guy" released an episode titled "Spies Reminiscent of Us" featuring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as themselves. The plot revolves around President Reagan appointing the actors as spies and sending them on a mission after watching the film in real life.
- The film Emmett (Chevy Chase) is watching is the musical "She's Working Her Way Through College" (1952), which featured Ronald Reagan, who was the sitting US President at the time of the film. Emmett watches the scene with the song "I'll be Loving You," sung by Reagan himself.
- Donna Dixon is married to Dan Aykroyd.
- John Landis's favorite pastime is inviting famous directors to take on cameo roles. Here you can see the following actors: Frank Oz, Martin Brest, Joel Coen, Larry Cohen, Michael Apted, Terry Gilliam, Costa-Gavras, Sam Raimi, and Ray Harryhausen.
- Bernie Casey, who played Colonel Rumbos, previously played the role of CIA agent Felix Leiter in the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" (1983), which also has a spy theme.
- The role of Emmett, played by Chevy Chase, was originally intended for Joe Piscopo.
- Actress Vanessa Angel made her debut in this film.
- The film was originally intended to end with the destruction of the world, but the test audience disliked this idea. The ending was changed and reshot.
- Paul McCartney's song "Spies Like Us," recorded for the film, reached the Top 10 hits in the United States in early 1986 and also peaked at number 13 on the UK charts.
- Later, in one interview, Dan Aykroyd stated that a similar project had been developed for him and John Belushi at one time. The project fell through due to Belushi's sudden death in March 1982.
- The scenes of the Pakistani deserts were shot in Morocco, and the Tajik Pamir was filmed in Norway.
- The film was inspired by the series of comedy films "Road to..." starring the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby duo. Bob Hope himself appears in a cameo as a golfer trying to play golf from a tent.
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